On 11/28/07, Dave Hewitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If not, do you have to export, change, save, and then import back to LyX?
> After doing that, will the blank lines not return upon subsequent saves?
This would seem the best way to go, under current conditions. Export
to .tex, remove the spaces and import it again. Never tried, so just
might work.
Doesn't work. The modernCV class does a fair number of odd things with ERT,
and apparently LyX doesn't like it. Even if you export the working .tex
file and import it without making any changes, LyX changes some things upon
import (and it fails to work with LaTeX). It also re-inserts the extra
spaces that were a problem before if you do edit those out before importing.
So you can't edit out the blank lines unless you move to running pdflatex
on it yourself (which I did figure out how to do from a command line). The
only trouble was that line breaks I had specified in LyX were gone, and I
couldn't use \newpage or \pagebreak to make them happen. Odd. I used
\vspace to push things down and that worked.
> The obvious short-term answer to get around this is to export the .tex
> file, edit it, then run LaTeX on it to get the PDF. I'm ashamed to say I
> have no idea how to make that happen, inside or outside of LyX. My only
> experience with LaTeX is through LyX w/ MikTeX.
Don't know how it works under Windows. You should look on the
Internet; related information should readily be available. Wikibooks
at least has a comprehensive LaTeX manual.
> A simple change to two lines of the 'moderncvthemeclassic.sty' style file
> fixes this. Can I just edit the style file in my MikTeX directory and save
> over it? Alternatively, if I create a modified style file and save it in
> that same directory, how do I tell LyX to use that one instead?
Best, thing, probably, backup your current .sty file and modify the
one you leave for TeX and LyX to work with (that is, the original
one). Since the file is already known to the TeX distribution and LyX,
I imagine that no Windows equivalent to Linux "texhash" in a Terminal
nor a LyX "Tools > Reconfigure" are required.
I just hacked a copy of the original and put it in the same directory as
the modified .tex file, and pdflatex found it and all played well together.
Not an elegant solution, but it works.
Dave
